Like I said, I REALLY want it to happen, mainly because we are going to need it. I guess I’m just skeptical because rebounding has been such an issue for him thus far. I’d probably be more apt to believe he’ll average double digits in scoring before I’d believe he’d average 8 rebounds, but getting both from him would be a goldmine. Grant Williams never did it. Tobias Harris didn’t do it. Only Jarnell Stokes and Jeronne Maymon have done it in the last 10 years, and only Wayne Chism and Ron Slay in the 10 years before that. Rebounding just seems like the kind of thing you are either really good at, or you aren’t. It’s a mindset, like Rodman had. I have never seen that mindset from ON and I don’t think it’s the kind of trait you can really learn to have. You’ve either got it or you don’t. Maybe he can become the exception to that rule. I sure hope so.
